A couple of weekends ago, whilst participating in the Habitat for Humanity project in Stony Plain, I ran into a lady I know who coaches girls club volleyball in Spruce Grove. She was also volunteering at the Habitat project. I've often been puzzled by this lady. She's a young single mother of an elementary school aged boy. She works full time. And for years, she's volunteered much of her time running the local volleyball club, and coaching a team of girls who are my own daughter's age. The reason I've been puzzled by this lady is because, 9 times out of 10, volunteer coaches are in it because they have a daughter or son on the team, or they are young education students adding coaching to their resumes. Very few people coach out of the love of the sport, or the goodness of their hearts. The lady in question seems to have been coaching girls volleyball for reasons other than personal gain. And I've often wondered how, as a single working mother, she finds the time, the energy, and the dedication to do such a wonderful thing for her community.
Janet and I went to sign up for club try-out this weekend, and once again I ran into the lady I am taling about. I asked her how she liked doing the volunteer work at Habitat, and whether she does it often. "Well, actually," she said, " I do it every weekend. My son and I are one of the recipient families for the Habitat project in Spruce Grove. We just moved into our home last weekend."
Awesome.
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